Epernicus: Bhawna Kalra, Ph.D.

Bhawna Kalra, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

biology

University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel)
Advisor:
Dr. Eran Gefen
Degrees:

Ph.D., Population/quantitative Genetics, M.D.University,Rohtak,INDIA

M.Sc., Genetics, M.D. University,Rohtak, INDIA

B.Sc., Biology, G.C. college, Gurgaon, India
Past Advisors:

Prof. Ravi Parkash (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
Insects Ecological/quantitative physiology and genetics
Honors:
2010 Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR)

2010-2011 Indo- Israel postdoctoral research fellowship

2010 Travel grant (CSIR), New Delhi(Declined)

2009 International travel grant from Department of science and technology(DST) India

2007-2010 University research scholarship

Communities:

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Bhawna Kalra's Publications (7)

Divergence of water balance mechanisms in two melanic Drosophila species from the western Himalayas.
Parkash R, Aggarwal DD, Kalra B, Ranga P

Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology. 2011 Apr;158(4):531-41
Sexual dimorphism for water balance mechanisms in montane populations of Drosophila kikkawai.
Parkash R, Sharma V, Kalra B

Biology letters. 2010 Aug 23;6(4):570-4
Impact of body melanisation on contrasting levels of desiccation resistance in a circumtropical and a generalist Drosophila species.
Ravi Parkash, Bhawna Kalra, V Sharma

Evolutionary Ecology. 2010;24:207-225
Impact of body melanisation on desiccation resistance in montane populations of D. melanogaster: Analysis of seasonal variation.
Parkash R, Sharma V, Kalra B

Journal of insect physiology. 2009 Oct;55(10):898-908
Correlated changes in thermotolerance traits and body color phenotypes in montane populations of Drosophila melanogaster: analysis of within-and between-population variations
Ravi Parkash, V. Sharma, Bhawna Kalra

J. of Zoology. 2009;280:49-59
Changes in cuticular lipids, water loss and desiccation resistance in a tropical drosophilid: analysis of variation between and within populations.
Parkash R, Kalra B, Sharma V

Fly. 2008 Jul-Aug;2(4):189-97
Climatic adaptations of body melanisation in Drosophila melanogaster from Western Himalayas.
Parkash R, Sharma V, Kalra B

Fly. 2008 May-Jun;2(3):111-7

Bhawna Kalra's Posters and Presentations (1)

IMPACT OF BODY MELANISATION ON CONTRASTING LEVELS OF DESICCATION RESISTANCE IN A CIRCUMTROPICAL AND A GENERALIST DROSOPHILA SPECIES (poster)
Bhawna Kalra

13th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles, France 2009; 09/2009

Attachment: poster.pdf

One Figure

Drosophila lab

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